 This book was actually written for Sunday Schools of the 19th century. This is the 8th volume of a series of textbooks, which was intended for the graduating class of ages 16-17. It has 30 scenes from the "progress of the Gospel" throughout church history.
 A fascinating narrative of the rise and fall of states and empires throughout history, from the creation of the world "which is generally received as convenient rather than probable, in the year 4004 before Christ", through Jewish history, through Oriental states, through the rise of Greece, to the fall of the Roman Empire.
 Large Catechism of Martin Luther, the father of Protestant Reformation. Catechism is someone's paraphrase of the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, Statement of faith, and other basic principles of faith, which were often used as children textbooks to learn to read at school or to read at home.
 A look at the architectural and artistic changes which have taken place in Rome as it was transformed from a pagan city into a Christian city. The first chapter has some points on the fact that the followers of Christ in the 1st century did not come just from the lowest layers of society, but from imperial circles as well. The rest of the chapters describe the differences between pagan temples and Christian churches, then pagan tombs, and Christian tombs.
|
 More than 800 pages on Europe of the 19th century. It was a time of revolutionary war in France. A time of secularization of Europe. A time of wars between different European states. The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and his conquests. War on Egypt. Clashes of Napoleon and Russia. 30 years of peace and renewed wars. Revolt of Eastern countries.
 This book aims to furnish a concise and connected account of human progress during ancient, medieval, and early modern times. The book features chapters on the dawn of history, lands and peoples of the East, Oriental Civilizations, the rise of Greece, mingling of the East and West, the Rise of Rome, Christianity in the Roman Empire, Classical Civilization, Middle Ages, Islam vs. Christianity wars, Middle Ages, Absolutism in France and England.
 Memorable celebrations, stately meetings of early kings, remarkable events, romantic episodes, brave deeds, picturesque customs, time-honoured sports, royal Christmases, coronations and royal marriages, chivalric feats, court banquetings and revellings, Christmas at the colleges and the inns of court, popular festivities, and Christmas-keeping in different parts of the world, derived from the most authentic sources, and arranged chronologically.
 This book gives brief biographies of the 31 most famous men of the Middle Ages. They were: Alaric the Visigoth, Attila the Hun, Genseric the Vandal, Theodoric the Ostrogoth, Clovis, Justinian, Mohammed, Charles Martle and Pepin, Charlemagne, Harun-al-Raschid, Egbert the Saxon, Rollo the Viking, Alfred the Great, Henry the Fowler, Canute the Great, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror, Peter the Hermit, Frederick Barbarossa, Henry the Second and His Sons, Robert Bruce, Marco Polo, Edward the Black Prince, William Tell and Arnold von Winkelried, Tamerlane, Henry V, Joan of Arc, Gutenberg, and Warwick the King-Maker.
|
